Re: [Fun With Perl] What does this do?

["Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>]

>From: "Juanma Barranquero" <barranquero@laley-actualidad.es>
> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:05:37 -0400, Bill Jones <bill@fccj.org> wrote:
>>You need a macro closure \E before the next \U, re -
>>
>>  print "\L\uHELLO, \E\U\lWORLD\E\n";
>>
>
> I would be more convinced if that wouldn't work:
>
>   print "\LHELLO, \Uworld\E\n";
>   hello, WORLD
>
> but it does. *Just* adding a \l next to \U causes a syntax error:
>
>   print "\LHELLO, \l\Uworld\E\n";
>   syntax error at -e line 1, near "\LHELLO, \l\U"
>   Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.


It should be a syntax error in that the last \E belongs to
the LAST \U

The FIRST \L lost it's macro closure \E in the reordering...

HTH,  :]

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